Word modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning.
1 It was the way he said his name, still using the diminutive .
2 Despite her diminutive size, she gave a good impression of fierce looming.
3 Eberhard lighted the six candles of a chandelier in his diminutive room.
4 The HP Veer is a pretty great phone, despite its diminutive appearance.
5 Lysandra stiffened at his familiar use of her name in the diminutive .
6 The Robin and a few diminutive Fly-Catchers are almost the only exceptions.
7 Mrs. Thalassa sought consolation in two packs of diminutive and dog-eared cards.
8 Does sheer rumor volume suggest a diminutive iPad is all but certain?
9 John raised the diminutive perch into the air and regarded it glumly.
10 The reading-desk stands opposite the pulpit, and looks very broad and diminutive .
11 He searched in his breast pocket and brought out a diminutive pocket-book.
12 With his diminutive frame, the boy looks much younger than his age.
13 Ana had played it perfectly, coming across as flighty, diminutive , and weak.
14 Singleton was a diminutive , dwarfish personage; he looked like a precocious child.
15 Róisín is Irish and the diminutive of Róis, meaning Rose in English.
16 There's more to the Caribbean island capital than its diminutive dimensions insinuate.
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Translations for diminutive
Diminutive в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки